Dacre Stoker's Dracula sequel

[Jaqhama]

Over at Amazon.com the majority of review readers loathed Dacre Stoker's sequel to his relatives calssic novel.

But then I came across this little gem that one of mortified reviwers wrote and I began to take more of an interest in the new Dracula book.

"However, when, within the first two chapters of a book the authors have three lesbian vampires who repeatedly whip a stripped young woman with a "cat of nine tails" with sharp hooks at the end of each tail, letting the dripping blood from the wounds fall into their open mouths, it begs the simple one word question....

"WHAT? YES, you read that right.

"Shall I continue? The victim hanging from the ceiling on some type of slaughterhouse system is pulled over the top of the "Countess" (can you see my eyes rolling again?) who, herself is standing nude in a bath tube where the victim's throat is cut and the blood allowed to pour over her."

Now I don't know about the rest of you Vault inmates but it sounds like bloody good pulpy stuff to me.
So much so that I've decided to buy a copy and have a read.

[blackabyss]

I have a copy on the reading pile but never built up the enthusiasm to read it..until now.

[andydecker]

My interest for this is virtually nil. Just another sequel, prequel, whatever.

One really should do a list of how many Dracula sequels there are

coincidently I am just reading - among others - a Dracula novel. The Tangled Skein And Freda Warrington´s Dracula the Undead is still on the pile somewhere.

[benedictjjones]

would 'the historian' count as a dracula 'sequel'?

[Michael Connolly]

Dacre Stoker's Dracula sequel is absolute rubbish. As for other sequels, Fred Saberhagen's THE DRACULA TAPE is probably the best. In this the Count gives his version of the events of Bram Stoker's original novel. The book is often very funny. Saberhagen's follow-up, THE HOLMES-DRACULA FILE, in which the Count meets Sherlock Holmes, is also good. According to Amazon, it is being reprinted in June this year.

[Jaqhama]

Feb 19, 2010 10:18:00 GMT Michael Connolly said:

Dacre Stoker's Dracula sequel is absolute rubbish. As for other sequels, Fred Saberhagen's THE DRACULA TAPE is probably the best. In this the Count gives his version of the events of Bram Stoker's original novel. The book is often very funny. Saberhagen's follow-up, THE HOLMES-DRACULA FILE, in which the Count meets Sherlock Holmes, is also good. According to Amazon, it is being reprinted in June this year.

Rubbish?
With nubile naked young women and blood drenched naked Countesses in bathtubs full of blood?
That's the kind of rubbish I like to read.
Haven't got around to it yet, but looking forward to 'getting my teeth' into it shortly.

To be honest the original Bram Stoker novel bored me.
Not enough naked wenches or free flowing blood.

I actually enjoyed the Kyle Lenyon Engel NEL paperback Dracula series, so you can see I'm a hopeless pulp fictioner.

No surprise that my fave Vampire movies are the first two Underworld films.
Blood, action and skin tight black leather and plastic...oh yeah!